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Lugosch Nicola, Themes of feminine piety in Icelandic medieval literature

Lugosch Nicola, Themes of feminine piety in Icelandic medieval literature, (dir. D. Ashurst, University of Durham)

En cours depuis 2010/In preparation since 2010

Résumé/abstract :

This thesis will examine motifs of morality in an attempt to identify a characteristically Icelandic model of ideal behaviour among Christian women. Because of the Icelandic Church’s relatively relaxed approach to sexuality and marriage, some of the typical hagiographic qualifications for sanctity as presented in popular Latin saints’ lives were transformed into a different set of standards as the Icelanders composed their own sagas of holy men and women. Further examination of these characters, as well as works produced for convents (such as Reynistarðarbók, which contains the relatively recently discovered Icelandic translation of the Book of Judith) will lead to a clearer understanding of native concepts of sanctity.

[Source : https://www.dur.ac.uk/english.studies/research/researchstudents/?id=9095]


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Rédaction (21 décembre 2014). Lugosch Nicola, Themes of feminine piety in Icelandic medieval literature. Mondes nordiques et normands médiévaux. Consulté le 14 décembre 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/rimw


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